Robert Johnson Painting Workshop At The Art Guild

Due to some crazy life circumstances, I am way behind on posting, but I'm going to go ahead and put up everything I have wanted to post over the last year.

First up, the photos from Robert Johnson's painting workshop at The Art Guild.  I posted our prep for the workshop awhile ago, so here are some pics from the weekend.

Day one started out with Robert doing a demo for the group.  Everyone learned so much that he generously offered to come in an hour early the next two days to continue working on it.  Having a generous teacher who really wants to help the students learn is so important to having a successful workshop.

As you can see, Robert started the painting by blocking in the set up, then started adding color.

After the morning demo, we started on our paintings.  If you recall from my set up post, everyone had their own still life to work on, so we spent the afternoons on those.

This is the set up that I chose.  I did not get very far as I was helping at the workshop and I'm an incredibly slow painter, but since I have access to the props, I will finish it up someday.

Robert also brought a couple of his paintings in so we could see them and study his work.  I so wish I had the $$$ to buy these!  They are really incredible.  Here are a few close up shots.

I'm very lucky to own a few of Robert's drawings, so I brought them in to show everyone even though we were not doing any drawing in class.

Here is Robert with his beautiful demo.  We had such a great weekend.  I'm hoping to do it again some time.  If you are unable to take a workshop, but would like to see more of Robert Johnson's work, he has a beautiful book of his paintings as well as some dvd's available here.